Courage Quotes

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmache

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardne

By courage I repel adversity. Adversa Virtute Repello.

Anonymous

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you.

Paula Giddings

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry S Truman

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Rosevelt

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

Every step toward Christ kills a doubt. Every thought, word, and deed for Him carries you away from discouragement.

Theodore Ledyard Cuyle

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Sydney Smith

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri - Frederic Amiel

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fulle

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Author Unknown

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Maya Angelou

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Courage atrophies from lack of use.

Unknown

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

Dans ce pays - Ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Success is that old ABC - - Ability, breaks, and courage.

Charles Luckman

Courage in danger is half the battle.

Titus Plautus

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... it takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

Thomas Troward

But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief, The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight, Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.

John Milton

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Lao Tzu

By courage I repel adversity.

Anonymous

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Saint Francis of Assisi

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein